The Vancouver Canucks have officially brought Filip Chytil back onto the active roster, and the move lines up with the timing as much as the need. Just minutes after the club dealt center Aatu Räty to the Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver had the opening it needed to activate Chytil from injured reserve.
Chytil was on the shelf to start the season because of a shoulder injury, but that was only the latest chapter in a run of bad luck that has followed him throughout his time in Vancouver. The 27-year-old arrived from the New York Rangers in the trade that sent J.T.
Miller eastbound in 2025, and he came with plenty of risk attached after appearing in just 10 games the previous season. Even so, he had been productive enough before the deal, putting up 11 goals and 20 points in 41 games while finishing at a +4.
Since landing with the Canucks in January 2025, though, Chytil has managed only 27 appearances in total. A high hit from Jason Dickinson, then with the Chicago Blackhawks, cut short his 2025-26 season with a concussion.
He opened the next season healthy, but that stretch didn’t last. Six games in, another concussion sent him back out of the lineup until late January.
He then skated in six more games before chronic migraine conditions forced him to miss another two weeks. And just when he was working back from that, he took a puck to the face at practice and suffered a facial fracture that ended his campaign.
This time, the injury that kept him on injured reserve wasn’t related to his head. Chytil is fully recovered from the shoulder issue, but the Canucks still have to handle him with care. He has been documented with between five and six concussions in his professional career, and another one could carry serious consequences.
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